James Horsfall
Senior Software Engineer at Akamai Technologies
Reston, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Horsfall is a Senior Software Engineer and seasoned Linux specialist with 7+ years focused on authentication, identity management, and platform operations at Akamai. He brings deep hands-on expertise in RHEL, sssd, OpenLDAP, PAM and automation with Perl and Bash, backed by multiple certifications including RHCE and several CompTIA credentials. His background spans senior Linux engineering roles in both commercial (Inmarsat, CACI) and military contexts, giving him strong systems reliability and security instincts. Based in Reston, VA, he maintains an open-source mindset and a knack for bridging low-level system administration with platform-scale tooling. An atypical detail: his GitHub persona blends computational genetics roots with infrastructure engineering, reflecting a curiosity-driven approach to problem solving.
7 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Network Manegment, Network Manegment at Colorado Technical UniversityMasonHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Mason City High SchoolAssociates Applied science in Electronics, Associates Applied science in Electronics at Cochise CollegeCollege and Career TrainingAssociates of Applied Science Electronics Technology, Associates of Applied Science Electronics Technology at Cochise County CollegeUS ARMY
Github Skills (16)
uci10
deep-reinforcement-learning10
chess-engine10
chess9
cuda9
deep-learning8
python8
gpu8
tensorflow7
rails-app7
network6
rails4
neural-network4
ruby-on-rails4
ruby3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jhorthos/lczero-training
Jan 2021 - Feb 2021
For code etc relating to the network training process.
Contributions:23 commits, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 16 days
networktraining
jhorthos/lc0
Oct 2020 - Feb 2021
The rewritten engine, originally for tensorflow. Now all other backends have been ported here.
Contributions:2 PRs, 7 pushes, 2 branches in 4 months
pythonbackendsrewrittentensorflow
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